PSI- Issue 9

Francesco Iacoviello et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 9 (2018) 1–2 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2018) 000–000

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launched collection of technical articles (covering those research areas related to Fracture, Fatigue and Structural Integrity) that are published under the auspices of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) and its Technical Committees as well as under the auspices of the National Groups that are affiliated with ESIS itself. The present issue of “Procedia Structural Integrity groups” together those technical articles that were presented at the IGF Workshop entitled: “Fracture and Structural Integrity” that was held in Cassino, Italy, from the 4 th till the 6 th of June 2018, with this workshop being the third one run as an international event. In this issue, the reader will find an exhaustive overview of the research work that is being carried out in Italy on fracture and structural integrity related issues as well as many contributions coming from different countries (such as, for instance, Greece, Morocco, and Ukraine). According to the IGF tradition, the majority of the presentations given in Cassino are available on the IGF YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/IGFTube. We hope the readers of these Proceedings will enjoy both the technical articles and the recorded talks. To conclude, a big “thank you” goes to all the members of the IGF Ex-Co for supporting not only the publication of this Proceedings, but also all the different activities done by the IGF on a daily basis: the fantastic results that the IGF has obtained in recent years have been possible also, and above all, thanks to the hard work done by everyone…

actually, probably, the best Ex-Co that the IGF has ever had, i.e.: Vittorio Di Cocco (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) Giuseppe Ferro (Politecnico di Torino, Vice President) Angelo Finelli (Treasurer) Donato Firrao (Politecnico di Torino, Vice President) Francesco Iacoviello (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, President)

Carmine Maletta (Università della Calabria) Giacomo Risitano (Università di Messina) Andrea Spagnoli (Università di Parma) Luca Susmel (University of Sheffield, Secretary)